"Now I can complain about young people." -- Stephanie is pleased to be 40 (January 2022). OK, Nu I'll give you. If you're a gnu. But gee, Xi? I don't know what you think of me. -- Ralley doesn't support the skipping of some Greek letters for the COVID-19 variants, in verse (January 2022). My problem now is that I have a headache which is a symptom of Omicron but it's also a symptom of being subject to other people's stupidity. One of my greatest fears is being harmed by someone else's stupidity and here we are. -- Sue has an unfortunate fear and is not pleased with her careless Omicron-positive housemate (January 2022). "The great things about masks is you don't have to admit you recognize somebody." -- Pierre has no trouble with social distance (January 2022). > > So one who makes an error is an erroror or errorer? > to err is human, to error is to be an errer To hum with humor is human, but (to be transparent) it should be apparant that to err, like an arrow on an errant errand, as an errer, is to BE human. p.s. though mayhap I might be mistaken and have missed my mark... p.p.s. Sorry...I'm done now. -- a bit of riffing on the err/error trivia question from Frank and KTM. Fortunately, I ran out of words (February 2022). On quitting drinking: "I get anxiety after drinking, when I'm sobering up." In reply: "Are you sure it's not all in your head?" -- friends being supportive to each other (February 2022). "Guys...guys! Can you speak up, the people in Hong Kong and New Orleans can't hear you." -- Matthew S. uses reverse psychology or maybe just sarcasm to kids in the next room on a Zoom call (March 2022). "How many inches is yours? Oh wow, that was a weird question." -- Lena just wanted to know how tall Vet's bicycle was (April 2022). "[The lawyers] were thinking we'd just go back to the original." "Which original?" -- Dave and Wietse discuss the problem of the dynamic nature of evidence coming from solid-state drives (May 2022). Us watching the sunset My mom: what's that orange circle around the sun Me:....that's your optic disc being burned. Stop staring at the sun directly. -- Sue "enjoys" a sunset with her mother (May 2022). > Have fun (unless you've made other plans). I always have other plans. -- Neel validated why I qualified the validiction of my email to him (June 2022). "When in doubt, do nothing." -- Marlene's motto (July 2022). "You're going to find friends wherever you go. Wherever I go, I find enemies." -- (Some) Kind (of) words (?) from Pierre to Match at his going away party (July 2022). "Suck it, everyone." -- Emily to...everyone at Connect-Four-Pong (July 2022). "How was the dump this morning, Gavin?" -- TMI or just someone who saw Gavin arriving while they left the Recycling and Solid Waste Center? (August 2022) "I don't want to open up a can of...pandora's box." -- While it was just a thought shift mid-sentence, I think it's a good turn of phrase. Cloude Roux (September 2022) I've decided that once I finish this bunch I'm not planting more till spring (other than the hundreds of bulbs that I ordered [...]). -- Shoshe is a Master Gardener; to her, planting a few hundred bulbs barely even merits mentioning. (October 2022). "I love how Alan's corrections are incorrections." -- Emily describes how Alan interrupts a story telling (October 2022). "Your cowering blocked my lane." -- While on D in ultimate, I heard footsteps rapidly closing, didn't see where, and wanted to avoid a collision. To be fair, it was a true statement and Ray said it without malice (October 2022). "The power in New Orleans is as dirty as the water is....and the politics." -- Daryl isn't only dealing with flickering lights (October 2022). "It's one of my biggest joys in life." "And one of my biggest pet peeves." -- Ray and Emily have diametrically opposed opinions on the topic of falling alseep on the couch (November 2022). Alan: "He hit my dick!" Allison: "Hypocrits get hit in the dick." Alan: "This is not Duck Hunt!" Kenji: "This is not Duck Hunt. This is Dick Hunt." Nerf guns + Connect Four sounded like a great game. And it was, for everyone except Alan (December 2022). I think the worst of the travel issues will be today because it will switch from rain to snow very rapidly and it will be a lot of black guys. -- Email from a smartphone text-to-speech translation, which took some work recognizing "black ice". I think that's as far as I can go, humor-wise, with this one (December 2022).